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  • 2011 Festival de Cannes announces lineup; includes new films by Takashi Miike, Pedro Almodóvar, Nicolas Winding Refn, and more

    by: Chase Whale
    April 14th, 2011

    Earlier this morning, the 64th Festival de Cannes announced their full 2011 lineup. This is very exciting for GATW, as I will be covering the entire festival, thanks to our sponsor Stella Artois. Back in December we found out Terrence Malick's highly anticipated TREE OF LIFE, along with Lars von Trier's MELANCHOLIA, Wong Kar Wai's THE GRANDMASTERS, Lynne Ramsay's WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN, and Paolo Sorrentino's THIS MUST BE THE PLACE will be premiering at the festival; in February, Woody Allen's MIDNIGHT IN PARIS was announced as the festival's opening night film. Everyone has been eagerly waiting the full lineup, and Cannes gave us a little more yesterday with the announcement of Gus Van Sant's RESTLESS.

    Festival de Cannes has announced the lineup, and it's rather diverse. PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES will be screening Out Of Competition, with Takashi Miike's DEATH OF A SAMURAI, Pedro Almodóvar's LA PIEL QUE HABITO, Nicolas Winding Refn's DRIVE, and others having their premieres in the Main Competition category; Sundance favorite MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE will be screening under the Un Certain Regard category.

    Check out the full lineup after the break! And stay tuned - Stella will be sending me to cover exclusive events for your reading/viewing pleasure.

    Opening film

    Woody Allen: Midnight in Paris (Out of Competition)

    Main Competition

    Pedro Almodóvar: La Piel que Habito

    Bertrand Bonello: L'Apollonide - Souvenirs de la Maison Close

    Alain Cavalier: Pater

    Joseph Cedar: Hearat Shulayim

    Nuri Bilge Ceylan: Bir Zamanlar Anadolu'da

    Jean-Pierre et Luc Dardenne: Le Gamin au Vélo

    Aki Kaurismäki: Le Havre

    Naomi Kawase: Hanezu No Tsuki

    Julia Leigh: Sleeping Beauty

    Maïwenn Le Besco: Polisse

    Terrence Malick: The Tree of Life

    Radu Mihaileanu: La Source des Femmes (The Source)

    Takashi Miike: Ichemei (Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai)

    Nanni Moretti: Habemus Papam

    Lynne Ramsay: We Need to Talk About Kevin

    Markus Schleinzer: Michael

    Paolo Sorrentino: This Must be the Place

    Lars Von Trier: Melancholia

    Nicolas Winding Refn: Drive

    Un Certain Regard

    Gus Van Sant: Restless

    Bakur Bakuradze: The Hunter

    Andreas Dresen: Halt auf Freier Strecke

    Bruno Dumont: Hors Satan

    Sean Durkin: Martha Marcy May Marlene

    Robert Guédiguian: Les Neiges du Kilimandjaro

    Oliver Hermanus: Skoonheid

    Sangsoo Hong: The Day He Arrives

    Cristián Jiménez: Bonsái

    Eric Khoo: Tatsumi

    Ki-duk Kim: Arirang

    Nadine Labaki: Et Maintenant On Va Ou?

    Catalin Mitulescu: Loverboy

    Hong-jin Na: Yellow Sea

    Gerardo Naranjo: Miss Bala

    Juliana Rojas, Marco Dutra: Trabalhar Cansa

    Pierre Schoeller: L'exercice de L'etat

    Ivan Sen: Toomelah

    Joachim Trier: Oslo, August 31

    Out of Competition

    Xavier Durringer: La Conquête

    Jodie Foster: The Beaver

    Michel Hazanavicius: The Artist

    Rob Marshall: Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

    Midnight Screenings

    Peter Ho-Sun Chan: Wu Xia

    Everardo Gout: Dias de Gracia

    Special Screenings

    Frederikke Aspöck: Labrador

    Rithy Panh: Le Maître des Forges de L'enfer

    Michael Radford: Michel Petrucciani

    Christian Rouaud: Tous au Larzac

    Source Festival de Cannes

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